THAW

In 2001 the Marat Guelman Gallery presented the collection of more than seventy paintings, photographs and installations of the modern Russian art to the Russian Museum. Among the artists represented in the Donation of Marat Guelman collection there are such prominent names as 'new Americans' Komar & Melamid, Grisha Bruskin and Alexander Kosolapov, stars of the Ukrainian art-scene Arsen Savadov and Vasily Tsagolov, Leningraders Olga and Alexander Florensky and Oleg Khvostov, Kazakh Erbol Meldibekov, and the most noticeable Muscovites - Oleg Kulik, AEC Group, tandem of Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky and others. The Thaw, or In the Middle of the Road exhibition is arranged as an intellectual adventure that suggests to follow the history of the Gallery. Quality and significance of the exhibits promise a traveller excellent aesthetic impressions. Permanent authors of the Gallery demonstrate their most recent works.

The exhibition for the first time reconstructs the history of Leningrad Expressionism in the unity and diversity of the ways of the plastic form development. Presented artworks closely converge, but their authors, as a rule, did not intersect in life.

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